I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.

The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work.

One simple word: ugh. Is something still considered a conspiracy if it's played out right under our noses?

My reason for becoming a vegetarian was simple: I loved (and love) animals

I'm envious of people who can sleep as long as they want. I have the circadian rhythm of a farmer.

The good thing about not being drop-dead gorgeous is that as time passes, I don't have much to worry about. I have friends who are actors and every day they look in the mirror with trepidation.

Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, 'My appetite is more important than your suffering'?

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach.

I like noise. It's always puzzled me why one of the goals of contemporary recording is to get rid of noise and to eliminate any element of a performance.

Poetry has its own unique language which every mind translates differently according to their own personal view.

Have you ever had so many thoughts churning inside that you didn’t dare let them escape, in case they blew you wide open

America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.

We can so reconstruct society that it will be self-perpetuating instead of as now, self-exhaustive.

Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.

What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a historical event but - and I have to be brutal and I am going to say it - a racket.

Asparagus in a lean in a lean is to hot. This makes it art and it is wet weather wet weather wet

My career never suffered from my not being skinny. I never did catwalk work because I was always too big. I couldn't get the clothes over my hips.

I wrote Report from the Interior was that after I finished Winter Journal, I took a pause, and I realized there was more I wanted to say.